Deadly stabbings in Vancouver and Surrey - UPDATE

UPDATE – The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team has identified the Surrey stabbing as 22 year old Vancouver resident Kyle Yellowbird.

And IHIT said investigators have identified a person of interest and seized a suspect vehicle though no arrests have been made.

ORIGINAL POST –

Young men are dead in both Surrey and Vancouver after deadly stabbings overnight.

Both of the incidents occurred about 1 a.m.

In Vancouver, a 17-year-old was critically wounded at the Japan House Restaurant on Kingsway Avenue near Slocan Street.He was rushed to hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.Sgt. Randy Fincham said the Vancouver Police Major Crime Section and Forensic Identification Unit are both at the scene investigating.The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team is investigating the Surrey altercation that left a 22-year-old man dead and another 17-year-old wounded.Police were called to a report of a fight near 154 Street and 100 Avenue. They found the two victims suffering from stab wounds. The 22-year-old died in hospital. The teen is now in stable condition.

IHIT’s Sgt. Adam MacIntosh said that investigators are looking for the driver of a mid to late 2000 model Honda Civic, silver or grey in colour. The man is believed to have been involved in the altercation.

“This vehicle will likely have damage to the driver’s door and window. The driver is described as being non-white and approximately 40-50 years of age,” he said in a release.

“Investigators are in the process of trying to determine the roles everyone played in this altercation and are encouraging the driver of this vehicle to come forward and shed some light on what occurred in the intersection this morning.”

Actually Peter, I haven’t been anywhere since the middle of July (when I had a week off) and now it is Aug. 16 – As I have said on here MANY times, when there is no daily news, I work on bigger projects, some of which are going to be published within the next month or two.

However I AM going on holidays this weekend for two full weeks and shutting the blog down. The Sun, like every newspaper in North America, has lost ad revenue/readership to the internet. But we are moving forward and have lots of great new things planned over the next few months.

How about writing a article for us before you leave. I’m not trying to ” work” all day at work. I still have a few weeks before your blog is replaced with fantasy football. I’d love to know more about all the trials coming up this fall. Since you won’t be back till September and these trials start in September……. How bout a per game show.

kim, did the police give the race of the victims? In the June 23rd shooting in abbotsford the police identified the victim as being “South Asian”. you said that they may have a good reason for doing so. i guess this time they didn’t have a good reason… or maybe it was something else.

Actually, I said you have to ask police about why they said the victim was South Asian because I didn’t know then and I don’t know now. I suggested that it might be to narrow down the identification issue if they wanted to confirm ID or to alleviate fears of others who might think the victim is their relative. But I don’t know. Today VPD did say the 17-year-old kid killed was Asian. I saw no reference to the ethnicity of the Surrey victims. Does it really matter to you? They are the VICTIMS and what happened to them is unacceptable no matter what.

Kim I’m Indo Canadian and I feel sorry for white people. I’ve watched the news my whole life and we use to say Indo Canadian Male, South Asian Teen, Korean Women….but we have taken this ignore race thing in the wrong direction. We have to discuss it to understand it because calling words the N-Word, C-Word, H-Word doesn’t solve the problem. I feel that the way we are headed means a lot of future racism towards white people in North America. The world is still a very racist place the UK has Brown vs. Black riots to this day. We need to discuss race, racism and culture more openly then just sweep it under the rug because eventually the rug get full.

lol you’re a fucken loser, 17 not allowed out past midnight? what kind of sad life did you leave? bet you were one of them loser who had no friends, and still have no friends because clearly you’re on here talking shit.

Are you stupid? Maybe the kid said he was at a friends, maybe he snuck out, maybe he was with family…but naturally being stabbed to death is appropriate punishment for being out after midnight you asshole.
I would like to punch you in the face for posting and thinking such a stupid thought.

What u weren’t out at midnight when u were 17? More of a issue of where and who he hangs out with than time of night. Don’t get me wrong a lot of bad things happen after midnight. That’s when yomants dads conceived him.

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